N3/P8: scale the enemy's action economy to the party

A party of N used to face one enemy swing a round against a single seat, so
each member absorbed ~1/N² of the solo incoming and cleared 100% of every T5
cell. The enemy now takes enemyActionsThisRound() attack-actions, each
re-targeted at a fresh standing seat, in both combat engines:

  - auto-resolve (simulatePartyRound): enemyRoundSwings loops the actions,
    re-rolling each target's pet procs.
  - turn engine (stepEnemyTurn): enemyAttackAction resolves one full SRD
    multiattack per action; step() no longer blanket-stamps the enemy turn to
    one seat, since a party's enemy now hits several.

The action count is a fractional expectation realised as a per-round coin-flip
(2.4 for a duo, 2N-1 for N>=3), because the integer lever is too coarse at small
N -- against a duo, 2 actions is a ~91% faceroll and 3 a ~45% grinder, with
nothing between. A light party-only enemy HP scalar (x1.15) trims the martial
ceiling that action count alone leaves at 100%.

Solo is exempt on both levers (1 action, no RNG draw; x1.0 HP), so
TestCombatCharacterization is byte-identical and the d8prereq corpus still
compares. Sim band (party of 3, T5, HP scaled): fighter 70->90%, cleric-led
27->72% -- monotonic by party size, no composition worse than soloing.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017mEwUmmS7aQTP2NQXj6rUa
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@@ -124,31 +124,89 @@ func TestSimulateParty_DownedMemberDoesNotEndTheFight(t *testing.T) {
}
}
// The enemy swings at one seat per round, not at everyone.
func TestSimulateParty_EnemyStrikesOneSeatPerRound(t *testing.T) {
// P8 scaling constants: solo is exempt on both levers (1 action, ×1.0 HP) so the
// characterization golden and the d8prereq corpus are untouched. A party's action
// budget is a fractional expectation — 2.4 for a duo (so it lands between soloing
// and a trio, where an integer 2 vs 3 has no room), 2N1 for N≥3 — plus ×1.15
// enemy HP.
func TestP8PartyScaling_SoloExemptPartyScaled(t *testing.T) {
if got := partyActionExpectation(1); got != 1 {
t.Fatalf("solo action expectation = %v, want 1", got)
}
if got := partyEnemyHPScale(1); got != 1.0 {
t.Fatalf("solo HP scale = %v, want 1.0", got)
}
if got := scaledEnemyMaxHP(200, 1); got != 200 {
t.Fatalf("solo enemy HP = %d, want 200 (unscaled)", got)
}
if got := partyActionExpectation(2); got != 2.4 {
t.Fatalf("duo action expectation = %v, want 2.4", got)
}
for n := 3; n <= 5; n++ {
if got, want := partyActionExpectation(n), float64(2*n-1); got != want {
t.Fatalf("party of %d: action expectation = %v, want %v", n, got, want)
}
}
if got := partyEnemyHPScale(3); got != 1.15 {
t.Fatalf("party HP scale = %v, want 1.15", got)
}
// int(200*1.15) truncates 229.99… to 229; the 1-HP floor is immaterial.
if got := scaledEnemyMaxHP(200, 3); got != 229 {
t.Fatalf("party enemy HP = %d, want 229 (trunc 200*1.15)", got)
}
}
// P8: the enemy's action economy scales with the roster. A party of N faces up to
// N attack-actions a round, each re-targeted, so the enemy's damage spreads across
// the roster instead of pinning one seat — the 1/N² exposure that made P6e's party
// a 100%-clear faceroll. Solo stays at exactly one swing a round, the pre-party
// behaviour the characterization golden pins.
func TestSimulateParty_EnemyActionEconomyScalesWithRoster(t *testing.T) {
enemyRollsPerRound := func(res PartyCombatResult) map[int]int {
perRound := map[int]int{}
for _, e := range res.Events {
if e.Actor == "enemy" && e.Roll > 0 {
perRound[e.Round]++
}
}
return perRound
}
// Solo: never more than one enemy swing in a round.
soloTank := baseEnemy()
soloTank.Stats.MaxHP = 5000
solo := simulatePartyWithRNG(
[]Combatant{basePlayer()}, soloTank, dungeonCombatPhases, seededRNG(23))
if len(enemyRollsPerRound(solo)) == 0 {
t.Fatal("solo: the enemy never attacked")
}
for round, n := range enemyRollsPerRound(solo) {
if n > 1 {
t.Fatalf("solo round %d: enemy swung %d times, want at most 1", round, n)
}
}
// Party of 3: no round exceeds the roster's action budget, and at least one
// round sees more than one swing — the enemy is really taking extra actions.
tank := baseEnemy()
tank.Stats.MaxHP = 5000
res := simulatePartyWithRNG(
party := simulatePartyWithRNG(
[]Combatant{basePlayer(), basePlayer(), basePlayer()}, tank, dungeonCombatPhases, seededRNG(23))
perRound := map[int]map[int]bool{}
for _, e := range res.Events {
if e.Actor != "enemy" || e.Roll == 0 {
continue
}
if perRound[e.Round] == nil {
perRound[e.Round] = map[int]bool{}
}
perRound[e.Round][e.Seat] = true
budget := int(partyActionExpectation(3))
if partyActionExpectation(3) > float64(budget) {
budget++ // ceil: the coin-flip round can add one action
}
if len(perRound) == 0 {
t.Fatal("the enemy never attacked")
}
for round, seats := range perRound {
if len(seats) != 1 {
t.Fatalf("round %d: enemy attack rolls landed on %d seats, want 1", round, len(seats))
sawMulti := false
for round, n := range enemyRollsPerRound(party) {
if n > budget {
t.Fatalf("party round %d: enemy swung %d times, over the %d-action budget", round, n, budget)
}
if n > 1 {
sawMulti = true
}
}
if !sawMulti {
t.Fatal("a party of 3 never faced more than one enemy swing in a round — action economy did not scale")
}
}